Drummer Dave King has built a reputation from the Twin Cities to New York to Paris to, we think, Jupiter one band at a time. And a big reputation that makes it, what with featured roles in The Bad Plus, Happy Apple, Halloween, Alaska, 12 Rods, Siamese Fighting Fish, and so on. The Trucking Company finds King with road-tested traveling companions Erik Fratzke (Happy Apple, Zebulon Pike) on guitar, Adam Linz (Fat Kid Wednesdays) on bass and Brandon Wozniak (Atlantis Quartet) on sax. Expect existential song titles, experimental magic and powder dry humor.

They have recently released a CD of which the New York Times says "Dave King’s dirty, aggressive, disciplined joy in playing drums conjoins many degrees between swing rhythm and more rigid backbeats. Good Old Light (Sunnyside), by his new, Minneapolis band Dave King Trucking Company, shows him as a generous-bulldog kind of bandleader, with serious ideas about instrumentation and contrast between players’ styles." [check out the New York Times review ].

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• Dave King Trucking Company: "Fort Worth" June 15, 2010 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEDvH__SdWI
• Dave King Trucking Company: "Blue Candy" June 15, 2010 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdUfXeAJjM8